📖 T — The English dictionary · page 56

tuscarora — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) The Tuscarora are a Native American people who lived in what is now North Carolina and later moved north to New York and Ontario, Canada.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tuscarora is also their language, which belongs to the Iroquoian family.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (a name) Tuscarora is also used as a place name for towns, a mountain area and a nation's reservation.↗ Example: The Tuscarora once lived in North Carolina.↗ · The Tuscarora joined the Iroquois Confederacy and it became the Six Nations.↗ · Some Tuscarora people live on a reservation in New York State.↗ · Tuscarora is an Iroquoian language.↗ · We read about the Tuscarora in our history project.↗

tush — Everyday, meaning 1: A cry of scorn, used to say that something is nonsense or that you do not agree.↗ Example: "Tush! we shall fare better here," said another.↗ · Tush, that is nonsense.↗ · Tush, I do not believe it.↗

tusk — Everyday, meaning 1: A tusk is a very long, pointed tooth that grows out of the mouth of some animals, such as elephants, walruses, wild boars and narwhals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tusks are used for digging, fighting, lifting and getting food, and they keep growing through the animal's life.↗ Example: The elephant lifted the log with its tusks.↗ · Walruses use their tusks to haul themselves onto the ice.↗ · A narwhal's tusk is really one long spiral tooth.↗ · Woolly mammoths had huge curved tusks.↗ · Elephant tusks are made of ivory.↗ · The wild boar's tusks were sharp and curved.↗ · Poachers hunt elephants for their tusks, which is against the law.↗ · Some elephants are born without tusks.↗ · Lay your beast alongside, Toomai, and let him prod with his tusks.↗

tusked — Everyday, meaning 1: Tusked means having tusks: long, pointed teeth that stick out of the mouth, like those of an elephant, walrus, wild boar or narwhal.↗ Example: The tusked walrus pulled itself onto the ice.↗ · A tusked wild boar burst out of the bushes.↗ · Mammoths were huge tusked animals of the Ice Age.↗ · The narwhal is a tusked whale with one long spiral tooth.↗ · In the story, the tusked troll guarded the bridge.↗ · Elephants are the best-known tusked animals.↗

tussle — Everyday, meaning 1: A rough fight or struggle between two people.↗ Example: The two giants had a tussle.↗ · "We shall have a tussle for that!" shrieked the Troll.↗ · The boys tussled over the ball.↗

tussock — Everyday, meaning 1: A thick clump or tuft of grass growing from the ground, often in wet ground.↗ Example: We stepped from tussock to tussock across the bog.↗ · Water lay between the tussocks.↗ · The herds grazed among the tussocks.↗

tut — Everyday, meaning 1: interjection.↗ e.g. A small clicking sound made with the tongue, written «tut» or «tut-tut», showing that you disapprove or are annoyed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: verb: To make this sound: «She tutted at the noisy boys».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Tut, informal) Short for Tutankhamun, the famous young pharaoh of ancient Egypt — «King Tut».↗ Example: «Tut-tut, what a mess!» said Grandma.↗ · The lady in the queue tutted when someone pushed in.↗ · Mum tutted at the muddy footprints.↗ · He gave a loud tut and rolled his eyes.↗ · King Tut was only a boy when he became pharaoh.↗ · Stop tutting at me, I'm going as fast as I can!↗ · “Tut, tut, tut,” he said, “where does she lie?”↗

tutor — Everyday, meaning 1: A tutor is a teacher who teaches one pupil or a small group, often at home or after school.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK school) A form tutor is the teacher who looks after a class in secondary school and takes the register.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (university) A tutor teaches and guides students.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To tutor means to teach someone in this way.↗ Example: My tutor comes on Wednesdays to help with spelling.↗ · Our form tutor reads the notices every morning.↗ · She tutors younger kids in reading.↗ · A tutor helped him get ready for the test.↗ · We discussed the trip in tutor time.↗ · Big sister tutored me in fractions.↗ · The tutor charges £20 an hour; how much for 3 hours?↗ · So one day he went to his tutor and said:↗

tutu — Everyday, meaning 1: A tutu is a short, stiff, frilly skirt that sticks out, worn by ballet dancers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tutu is also any light, puffy, net skirt that children wear for dressing up.↗ Example: She wore a white tutu for the ballet show.↗ · My little sister put on her sparkly tutu and twirled round the kitchen.↗ · The dancers' tutus stuck out like plates.↗ · For the charity fun run, Dad wore a pink tutu.↗ · The tutu is made of many layers of stiff net.↗ · In «Swan Lake» the swans dance in white tutus.↗

tv — Everyday, meaning 1: TV (television) is a machine with a screen that shows programmes, films and news.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: TV also means the programmes that are shown: watching TV.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: TV can mean the business of making these programmes: she works in TV.↗ Example: We watched a nature programme on TV.↗ · Can I watch TV after my homework?↗ · Turn off the TV; it's time for bed.↗ · My favourite TV show is about animals.↗ · The heavy TV was fixed to the wall so it couldn't fall.↗ · Grandma calls it the telly.↗ · Too much TV before bed can make it hard to sleep.↗ · The football match is on TV tonight.↗

twain — Everyday, meaning 1: Two.↗ It is used in old tales and set phrases.↗ Example: The rope was cut in twain.↗ · Childe Rowland and his brothers twain were playing ball.↗ · The door split in twain.↗ · He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.↗ (Prophets 2KI.4.33, JPS 1917)↗ · Above Him stood the seraphim; each one had six wings: with twain he covered his face and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.↗ (Prophets ISA.6.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will give the men that have transgressed My covenant, that have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof; (Prophets JER.34.18, JPS 1917)↗

twang — Everyday, meaning 1: A twang is a sharp, ringing sound like the sound of a tight string being plucked.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A twang is a way of speaking where the voice sounds partly through the nose, often part of an accent: «a Southern twang».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To twang is to make that sound, or to pluck a string so it makes it.↗ Example: The guitar string made a loud twang.↗ · He twanged the rubber band across the box.↗ · She spoke with a slight American twang.↗ · The arrow left the bow with a twang.↗ · Stretch the band tighter for a higher twang.↗ · The banjo twanged in the background.↗ · Grandpa has a Texan twang.↗ · He bent his bow and the sinewy string twanged.↗

tweak — Everyday, meaning 1: To pinch and twist something quickly, such as a nose.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make a small adjustment to something.↗ Example: They tweaked Peter's nose and passed on.↗ · I tweaked the settings on the screen.↗ · Tweak the recipe a little.↗

tweedle — Everyday, meaning 1: To play a tune lightly on a pipe or whistle, making a trilling sound.↗ Example: By-and-by he saw a man playing the bagpipes.↗ · He tweedled a little tune on his whistle.↗ · The fiddler tweedled merrily all evening.↗

tweet — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) The short, high sound a small bird makes; (verb) to make this sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A short message posted on the social media site Twitter (now called X); (verb) to post such a message.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To squeak or cry out in a small, high voice, like a mouse.↗ Example: The little birds tweeted in the tree outside my window.↗ · «Tweet, tweet!» sang the robin.↗ · The footballer tweeted a photo of the trophy.↗ · His tweet went viral and thousands of people saw it.↗ · Think before you tweet, because others can share it.↗ · The news was announced in a tweet.↗ · The baby chicks tweeted for food.↗ · "Tweet," he cried; "you trod very hard upon me, madam."↗

tweezer — Everyday, meaning 1: Tweezers are a small tool with two thin metal arms that you squeeze together to pick up or pull out tiny things, such as splinters.↗ Example: Mum used tweezers to take out my splinter.↗ · The first-aid kit has a pair of tweezers.↗ · Pick up the tiny bead with the tweezers.↗ · The scientist lifted the leaf with tweezers.↗ · Ask an adult to remove a tick with tweezers.↗ · My tweezers are in the bathroom drawer.↗

twelfth — Everyday, meaning 1: Twelfth comes after eleventh in order: number 12.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A twelfth is one of twelve equal parts of a whole, written 1/12.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A month is one twelfth of a year.↗ Example: He finished twelfth in the race.↗ · One twelfth of the class was absent.↗ · The twelfth page has a picture.↗ · A month is one twelfth of a year.↗ · One twelfth of 36 is 3.↗ · She is in twelfth grade.↗ · The pizza was cut into twelfths.↗ · "Then you shall be the twelfth," said the old Chinaman.↗ · On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali: (Torah NUM.7.78, JPS 1917)↗ · that Saadjah Gaon, who lived in the tenth, and Judah Halevi, who lived in the twelfth century, represented the book "Yezirah" as a very ancient work.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · I must not omit to mention two other Hebrew commentaries, one by Judah Halevi, and the other by Ebn Ezra, who lived in the first part of the twelfth century.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim; (Writings 1CH.24.12, JPS 1917)↗ · The twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.19, JPS 1917)↗ · The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and in his course were twenty and four thousand.↗ (Writings 1CH.27.15, JPS 1917)↗

twelve — Everyday, meaning 1: Twelve is the number 12.↗ It is one more than eleven.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A dozen is twelve.↗ A year has 12 months.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A clock face shows 12 hours.↗ Example: There are twelve eggs in a box.↗ · A year has twelve months.↗ · He is twelve years old.↗ · Twelve children came to the party.↗ · A foot is twelve inches.↗ · At twelve o'clock we have lunch.↗ · A dozen roses is twelve roses.↗ · Twelve can be shared equally by 2, 3, 4 and 6.↗ · The twelve princesses went upstairs to bed.↗ · and threescore and twelve thousand beeves, (Torah NUM.31.33, JPS 1917)↗ · Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: (Torah GEN.35.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.↗ (Torah GEN.14.4, JPS 1917)↗ · one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.↗ (Writings 2CH.4.15, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Jorah, a hundred and twelve.↗ (Writings EZR.2.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Hariph, a hundred and twelve.↗ (Writings NEH.7.24, JPS 1917)↗

twelvemonth — Everyday, meaning 1: A year, or twelve months.↗ Example: That day twelvemonth the wood came ashore.↗ · I will wait here to-morrow twelvemonth.↗ · She was lonely for another twelvemonth.↗

twentieth — Everyday, meaning 1: Twentieth comes after nineteenth in order: number 20.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A twentieth is one of twenty equal parts of a whole, written 1/20.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The twentieth century was a hundred years of history, the time of the first cars, planes and computers.↗ Example: She was the twentieth person in line.↗ · One twentieth of 100 is 5.↗ · On his twentieth birthday he got a car.↗ · The twentieth floor is the top.↗ · One twentieth is the same as five percent.↗ · Planes were invented in the twentieth century.↗ · “Tink can’t go a twentieth part of the way round,” she reminded him a little tartly.↗ · And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.↗ (Torah GEN.8.14, JPS 1917)↗ · In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.↗ (Torah EXO.12.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.↗ (Torah NUM.10.11, JPS 1917)↗ · the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel; (Writings 1CH.24.16, JPS 1917)↗ · For the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.27, JPS 1917)↗ · the one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul; (Writings 1CH.24.17, JPS 1917)↗

twenty — Everyday, meaning 1: Twenty is the number 20.↗ It is two tens.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A twenty is a twenty-dollar or twenty-pound note.↗ Example: She has twenty stickers.↗ · He paid with a twenty-dollar bill.↗ · Twenty children are in the class.↗ · Twenty is four times five.↗ · We have ten fingers and ten toes, twenty in all.↗ · The bus comes every twenty minutes.↗ · My aunt is in her twenties.↗ · ‘I am fifteen, and she is twenty.’↗ · And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.↗ (Torah GEN.11.24, JPS 1917)↗ · two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, (Torah GEN.32.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.↗ (Torah NUM.25.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And he judged Israel twenty years.↗ (Prophets JDG.16.31, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.↗ (Writings EZR.2.32, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.↗ (Writings EZR.2.11, JPS 1917)↗

twice — Everyday, meaning 1: Twice means two times: «I rang twice».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Twice as many or twice as much means double the amount.↗ Example: Ben has twice as many cookies as Lily.↗ · Zoe read twice as many pages as Tom.↗ · Sam jumped twice.↗ · Brush your teeth twice a day.↗ · A bike has twice as many wheels as a unicycle.↗ · I knocked twice, but nobody came.↗ · Think twice before you say something unkind.↗ · My brother is twice my age.↗ · The Fairy clapped her hands twice.↗ · And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.↗ (Torah NUM.20.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.↗ (Torah GEN.41.32, JPS 1917)↗ · And it shall come to pass on the sixth day that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.'↗ (Torah EXO.16.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Lo, all these things doth God work, twice, yea thrice, with a man, (Writings JOB.33.29, JPS 1917)↗ · God hath spoken once, twice have I heard this: that strength belongeth unto God; (Writings PSA.62.12, JPS 1917)↗ · So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.↗ (Writings NEH.13.20, JPS 1917)↗